Hello. Today is a very special day, the 11th day of the 11th month of Heisei 11, the 11th year in the Heisei (“Peace & Maturity”) era that began when Akihito became emperor in 1989. This has been dubbed “Pocky Day” by Glico, the company that brings us the #1 selling chocolate covered pretzle in Japan. (J-List has these on our Japanese snacks page…)
Incredibly tall shoes, with heels six inches high or higher, remain popular with young Japanese girls of the Shibuya set. They’re popular, supposedly, because they let young women look down on the world. However, this is a fashion that can be fatal — two months ago, a 22 year old woman wearing these extremely tall shows fell and struck her head on her car, and was instantly killed. Another recent boom in Tokyo (there are so many, you know) are dog tags — girls age 16-22 can be seen all over Shibuya wearing these fashionable versions of what soldiers wear, except these are made of silver and are created by designer accessory makers.
Kaori is taking a poll to win a bet with a friend. She likes to put mayonnaise on various food, then add a dollop of soy sauce on top of the mayonnaise. Her friend thought this was weird, so they made a bet, so she’s been asking everyone if they thought that mayonnaise and soy sauce go together, and recording the results. If you have an opinion on the mayonnaise and soy sauce issue, please mail her at mailto:[email protected] .
Tonight’s update is a very nice one, with lots of good stuff. First, there are several excellent new manga and dojinshi on the manga (page 2) and dojinshi pages. There are many great new items, in addition to more copies of some excellent manga that had gone out of stock. Fans of J-List’s new cards & puzzle page will enjoy the beautiful new brushed gold-style 1000 piece puzzle we’ve posted, and the excellent anime cards (new series for Yamato, Key the Metal Idol and Capcom games). There are several stunning new hard and soft-cover photobooks on the photobook past, including some more copies of the very nice Last Song by Miura Aika and others.
We’re happy to announce that Dream World II: Plagiarism, a collection of beautiful adult parody CG artwork on CD ROM, is shipping. Everyone who preordered theirs got their copies sent out to them yesterday. I’m proud of this collection of artwork, which shows off the talent and long hard work of Mr. Yuji Kobayashi, a well-known hentai artist in the Comic Market world.
As always, we continue to fine-tune the mailing list. If you experience problems at all, feedback is appreciated!
